Having stitched together a climate deal at Copenhagen with a select group of countries, the government will have to do some explaining in Parliament on Tuesday on some provisions in the Copenhagen Accord, especially those relating to international verification of voluntary action taken by India on climate change.

The knives are out in Copenhagen. Forget a global legal agreement on climate care, even getting an encouraging public posture by the world

Fresh from the world climate change talks which reached a last-minute non-binding deal, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh will make a statement in the Rajya Sabha on Monday where he is expected to say that India

Although the Copenhagen Accord is

Inept and dubious are the only words that come to mind in describing the negotiations that have led to India endorsing the Copenhagen Accord. India chose to identify itself with the US, China, Brazil, South Africa

With no signs of a possible deal at the Climate Summit here, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today made it clear that future negotiations on tackling the menace should be based on equitable burden sharing as enshrined in Kyoto Protocol and Bali mandate.

Copenhagen: The Copenhagen climate meeting, which brought together 115 world leaders to deliberate on the perils facing the world from growing emissions, is near its bitter end. The conference has ended with meaningless commitments

Discussions Go On For Extra Day As World Leaders Try To Salvage Summit

Copenhagen: World leaders went into an extra night of discussions in a bid to hammer out a deal on climate change, prompting PM Manmohan Singh to delay his departure and huddle into discussions with US President Barack Obama and other summiteers.
Singh was scheduled to leave the

Two years of preparations. Two weeks of hectic negotiations. Presence of more than 110 high-profile heads of states. Nothing helped. The deal to save the world from catastrophic effects of climate change remains as elusive as ever.

But no one, least of all host Denmark, wants to admit that the Copenhagen climate change conference has been a failure.

Urmi A Goswami COPENHAGEN

HEADS of state of key countries worked into the wee hours of Friday morning while negotiators from 26 countries continued till daybreak in their attempts to put together a political declaration for the heads of states and governments to adopt on Friday.